Abylkhan Kasteev (1904-1973) was a Kazakhstani painter. He was highly decorated, winning the National Artist of Kazakh SSR, and The Laureate of the Chokan Valikhanov State Premium of the Kazakh SSR. He was awarded the Order of October Revolution, and two Orders of Labour Red Flag.

Kasteev was born in a small village in Taldykorgan oblast and studied at the N.K.Krupskaya art studio in Almaty. He painted more than a thousand paintings in oil and water-colours. Some of his works are on display in the State Tretyakov Gallery, in the State Museum of East Nations Art, in the Central Museum of USSR Revolution by Lenin Order in Moscow, and in the State Museum of Fine Arts of Kazakhstan (which was renamed after Kasteev), and in the other museums of the country.

Vincent van Gogh

IV. Practice

Abylkhan Kasteev

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted. His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.

The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness.

He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is «The Potato Eaters» (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.

Vincent Willem

van Gogh

B) Grammar: Compound nouns

A compound noun is a noun that is made up two or more words

The two parts may be written in a number of ways :

as one word: policeman, boyfriend

as two words joined with a hyphen: dining-table

as two separate words: fish tank.

There are no clear rules about this — so write the common compounds that you know well as one word, and the others as two words. The two parts may be:

Practice

Ex. 9 at p. 137 a) Match the nouns:

hotel a) holiday

tourist b) concert

night c) friend

package d) room

rock e) attraction

pen f) life

b) Match compound nouns with the definitions below:

a person you write letters, but have never met – pen friend

a place which visitors like to see – tourist attraction

an event where you can hear a band playing – rock concert

the place where you sleep on holiday – hotel room

Ex. 8 at p. 136 Are there sentences true of false?

Van Gogh was very successful from the beginning.

right b) wrong c) doesn’t say

One of the Van Gogh’s first success was the Challenge Act.

right b) wrong c) doesn’t say

Abylkhan Kasteev first started acting in Almaty.

Right b) wrong c) doesn’t say

Abylkhan Kasteev was the first to be honored the title of National Arts of Kazakhstan.